The “Lucky Zip Codes” video that we viewed last night succeeded on the level of raising issues and stimulating conversation. But it appears that Amy Hunter, the presenter, referenced a number of historic events and threw in some terminology that was unfamiliar to many of us (and probably her TED Talk audience as well). I thought that it may be helpful to offer some context.
On November 30, 2018, Pizza and Social Justice team members were pleased to be invited to join the Be Clear team (BACKSACK Int’l) and members of several other Chicagoland groups for dinner at Santiago’s Mexican Restaurant in LaGrange IL.
The Axe Files Ginnie mentioned the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, by sociologist James Loewen in a recent Pizza & Social Justice Continuing Conversation. Attached is a link to an NPR interview with Professor Loewen. --Yvor
by Kathy Routliffe
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Pioneer PressOctober 1, 2018, 11:25 AM
An African-American mother told a New Trier group that helped sponsor a movie on racism that she wasn’t prepared for that much history in the documentary “The Long Shadow.”